Shawnee Peak Fire
The Shawnee Peak Fire burned 1,480 acres in Alaska, in 1997. It was discovered on July 2, 1997. The cause was recorded as natural.
- Size
- 1,480 acres
- Discovered
- July 2, 1997
- Cause
- Natural
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 1,565 acres. Point of origin as reported, 64.434, -144.589.
The record
- Reported final size
- 1,480 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 1,565 acres
- Area inside the final perimeter
- 1,482 acres
- Discovered
- July 2, 1997
- Cause
- Natural
- State
- Alaska
- Land ownership at origin
- State
- Reporting unit
- Delta Area
- Agency
- DVF
- Unit
- AKDAS
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- Unique fire identifier
- 1997-AKDAS-712456
- MTBS fire identifier
- AK6444514456919970702
- MTBS assessment
- Initial (SS)
- Fire occurrence record
- SFO-AK0369-97_12456
- Perimeter map method
- Mixed Methods
- Note on the perimeter
- Fire perimeter modified using Landsat Image Service and MTBS-Alaska data. Image ID: LT05_L2SP_066015_19970804_20200910_02_T1.
The three sizes are three measurements: the size the agency reported when the fire was out, the burned area MTBS drew from satellite imagery before and after, and the GIS area inside the final perimeter, unburned islands included. They rarely agree exactly.
Other large fires in Alaska in 199712
| Fire | Acres | Start | Cause |
|---|---|---|---|
| Inowak Fire | 606,945 | Jun 25, 1997 | Natural |
| Simels Fire | 365,871 | Jun 7, 1997 | Natural |
| Magitchlie Creek Fire | 308,120 | Jun 10, 1997 | Natural |
| George River Fire | 101,820 | Jun 26, 1997 | Natural |
| Garfield Creek Fire | 76,300 | Jul 22, 1997 | Natural |
| Titnuk Creek Fire | 71,760 | Jun 24, 1997 | Natural |
| Many Lakes Fire | 47,300 | Jul 21, 1997 | Natural |
| West Fork Nixon Fire | 47,060 | Jul 5, 1997 | Natural |
| B 484 Fire | 44,050 | Jul 3, 1997 | Natural |
| Reindeer Fire | 37,900 | Jul 22, 1997 | Natural |
| Kokhila Hills Fire | 36,400 | Jun 8, 1997 | Natural |
| Roketaloi Fire | 35,490 | Jul 3, 1997 | Natural |
Nearby
Sources
Perimeters from the National Interagency Fire Center’s Interagency Fire Perimeter History, compiled from the Forest Service, BLM, BIA, Fish and Wildlife Service, National Park Service, the Alaska Interagency Fire Center and CAL FIRE. Burned areas and ignition dates from Monitoring Trends in Burn Severity (MTBS), a program of the US Geological Survey and the USDA Forest Service. Fire reports from Short, Karen C. 2022, Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014], 6th Edition, Forest Service Research Data Archive, doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6. Records before 2014 were joined by this site: a fire report to the burned area its MTBS identifier names, a perimeter to the burned area it lies in when the names or the sizes agree.